# Backlink Profile History

> Backlink Profile History is a paid API for AI agents from seo.openverbs.com, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-11).

Returns historical backlink counts and profile data for a given domain over a specified date range

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://seo.openverbs.com/v1/backlinks-history?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-11
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/backlink-profile-history-4af9596c
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Ply2XL9t3xOEF9CQc4TkL

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability backlink-profile-history-4af9596c -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the backlink profile history for stripe.com from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023 so I can see how their link count changed over the year?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need historical backlink data over a time range rather than a current snapshot — ideal for trend analysis, campaign measurement, competitor monitoring, or investigating the timeline of a domain's link profile changes. Prefer this over a current-backlink endpoint when time-series context matters.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid domain format (too short, includes scheme or path) returns a validation error
- Invalid date format (not YYYY-MM-DD) returns a pattern mismatch error
- Date range outside available data history returns empty or partial results
- Unknown or very new domain with no backlink history returns empty dataset
- Network timeout or upstream data source unavailability returns a 5xx error

## How this service works

Get a domain's backlink profile over time: a monthly timeseries of domain rank, total backlinks, new and lost backlinks, referring domains (new/lost/total), referring main domains, broken backlinks and crawled pages. For tracking link velocity and growth or a competitor's link building. Unknown domain returns found=false.

## Output

A time-series dataset of backlink profile metrics for the specified domain within the given date range, showing how the number and composition of backlinks changed over time between dateFrom and dateTo.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "dateTo": {
   "type": "string",
   "pattern": "^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}$",
   "description": "End date (YYYY-MM-DD). Defaults to today."
  },
  "target": {
   "type": "string",
   "maxLength": 253,
   "minLength": 3,
   "description": "Bare domain, e.g. stripe.com (scheme, www and path are stripped)."
  },
  "dateFrom": {
   "type": "string",
   "pattern": "^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}$",
   "description": "Start date (YYYY-MM-DD). Defaults to the earliest available."
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/backlink-profile-history-4af9596c/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from seo.openverbs.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/seo.openverbs.com/llms.txt)